Definition of "emulgent"

emulgent

adjective
1. Of a straining or purifying process.
2. (medicine) Of the renal arteries and veins.
  Quotations
  By the motion of the Heart, through the Emulgent Branches, the Blood is brought to the Kidneys, and is there freed of its Serum by their little Glands, […]
  1705, George Cheyne, “Of the Existence of a Deity”, in Philosophical Principles of Natural Religion: […], London: Printed for George Strahan […], § XXXV, page 213
  ...the kidneys, plac'd at the extremities of two large blood-vessels, the emulgent vein and artery, derived from the great vein and artery, very soon after their parting at the heart, the fountain of circulation.
  1734, William Stukeley, Of the Gout, page 49
noun
plural emulgents
1. (medicine) A substance promoting bile or urine production
2. A renal artery or vein.